ArcelorMittal Poland in Krakow focuses on hydrogen
Linde Gaz Polska, in cooperation with ArcelorMittal Poland, will build a hydrogen production plant on the premises of the Krakow branch, which will supply process gas to two galvanizing plants. The total investment will exceed PLN 100 million. The Kraków smelter will be able to use hydrogen as early as the end of 2026.
Since 2018, ArcelorMittal Poland has not used coal as a fuel in its Kraków branch, and since July this year it has not produced coke here. – Our installations: the hot rolling mill and the cold rolling mill, as well as the galvanising and sheet metal painting lines, currently operate exclusively on the basis of natural gas – explains Łukasz Skorupa, COO Flat Products and Quality and director of the Krakow branch.
Łukasz Skorupa adds
“We are currently completing a project to build hydrogen furnaces, which allowed us to eliminate ammonia in the annealing plant. Its cost is PLN 52 million.
The project with Linde, on the other hand, is to ensure a reliable supply of hydrogen for our galvanizing plants. We are increasingly focusing on hydrogen”
The plant will be built near the galvanizing plant, producing hydrogen from natural gas. The investment has already begun, and design work is currently underway. In addition to hydrogen fuel for galvanizing plants, the Krakow branch of ArcelorMittal Poland will also gain another environmental effect – it will completely eliminate ammonia from the process, which will increase the level of process safety of the plants
Wojciech Koszuta, CEO of ArcelorMittal Poland says
“Since 2004, we have already invested nearly PLN 2.5 billion in Kraków’s rolling mills and galvanizing plants.
We are constantly improving the quality of our products, expanding their product range, and at the same time gradually reducing our environmental impact”
Hence the elimination of ammonia and the transition to hydrogen. The decarbonization of our company is not only about activities in the area of steel production, but also in the processing part” he concludes.
Oleksandra Tuzhylina, CEO of Linde Gaz Polska says
“As an expert with over a century of experience in the field of hydrogen production, distribution and storage, we were able to offer ArcelorMittal the best solutions available in the hydrogen sector, ensuring the highest level of operational plant safety and production process reliability”
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